The author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon delves deep into the fascinatingly implausible - but totally true - story of Percy Fawcett, the explorer and adventurer who vanished without a trace whilst searching the Amazon for a forgotten city.
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history.
They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z.
Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781471164910
Number of pages: 352
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm
‘A fascinating and brilliant book’ - Malcolm Gladwell
‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ - Sunday Times
‘The best story in the world, told perfectly’ - Evening Standard
‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ - Daily Telegraph
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